"Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule."
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"The first casualty of war is innocence."
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"The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior."
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"There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success."
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"An army marches on its stomach."
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"The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory."
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
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"It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate."
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"Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other."
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"It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator."
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"Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."
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"Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force."
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"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start."
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"When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched."
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"'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all."
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"The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war."
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"The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly."
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"The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality."
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